Quotes About Courage

Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.

Neither deficiencies nor disappointments, losses nor crosses, can cause disquieting discontents in that bosom where faith is commander in chief.

As David's three worthies ventured their lives, and brake through the host of the Philistines for water, 2 Sam. xxiii. 46, — Such a kind of violence must we use, breaking through all dangers for obtaining the 'water of life.

Love is a holy fuel. It fires the affections, steels the courage, and carries a Christian above the love of life, and the fear of death.

Follow the path of the unsafe

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don't freeze up.

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator.

XV - Grandfather Frog Gives Up Hope XVI - The Merry Little Breezes Work Hard XVII - Striped Chipmunk Cuts the String XVIII - Grandfather Frog Hurries Away XIX - Grandfather Frog Jumps into More Trouble XX - Grandfather Frog Loses Heart XXI - The Merry Little Breezes Try to Comfort Grandfather Frog XXII - Grandfather Frog's Troubles Grow XXIII - The Dear Old Smiling Pool Once More I

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Peter, I would hate to have Lightfoot try

There are times when it requires a high courage to speak the banal.

There is no adventure in life equal to that of being, and asserting, one's self.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. The defeat of hope leads not to despair, but to resignation. The resignation of those who have had a grasp of hope retains hope's power.

A man can produce fortitude from his own vitals, but the true food of valor is example.

Si estás poseído por el temor no pierdas el tiempo tratando de "matar" el temor; en cambio, cultiva el valor y el temor desaparecerá.

If you are possessed of Fear, do not waste time trying to "kill out" Fear, but instead cultivate the quality of Courage, and the Fear will disappear.

If I could remove fear from my life, uproot it, who would I be? she wonders. What would it feel like to live for today and let the future remain in the future? How much lighter her burdens would seem.

Look, I know it's a risk. But at some point, you have to jump. I'll either land on my feet or I'll land on my face. But either way, I'll own the fall.

Resolutely ignoring Banu's dark mutterings, steeling herself against the barrage of harsh words that questioned her motives, her upbringing, and her morality

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." —FLANNERY O'CONNOR "I

This solidarity business I used to talk about ain't just--what do you youngsters call it?--theoretical. It means putting your body, your physical self, on the line, baby girl. Even when--especially when--it ain't convenient.

Maggie decided to walk into the dense grove of trees. Here, on the back lawn, Lakshmi would feel exposed, naked, in the glare of the sunlit afternoon. But the light would be weak in the woods, and if there was one thing that Maggie had learned in her years as a therapist, it was that shame required darkness.

Two things make us do bad things in life - fear and pride.